George Osborne

Well obviously stranger things HAVE happened. And recently too.
However his litany of bad decisions over his last year in office... would make it a scary thought. (I don't have to list them do I? Starting with v v nearly losing Scotland and then calling another referendum...)
But with Trump in the White House you'd have to have bad judgement to want the job!

I read that Cameron is in the running to be General Secretary of NATO!

Suspect the other London editors are really pissed off. They've had to learn skills and climb a greasy pole, and Gideon saunters in, smiling smugly, in as if he's been invited to join the local PTA.
Then he implies it's a job he can do part-time.
Ex ministers are often given directorships. They turn up to board meetings every couple of months and earn their keep because they are well connected. Their role is "advisory". They may not know a thing about the industry in question, or the skills of being a director. But they are not the chief executive.
Any suggestions for a job for David Cameron?
(the only one I've heard of is running a charity that he invented himself, also President of a charity (an honorary role) househusband and auto-biographer.)
But who knows what he's being lined up for. (assuming that there are some powerful people who either owe him a favour, or are prepared to overlook his massively bad judgement)

Who could possibly disagree with that Jen? In particular para 6 of the statement and thank goodness for para 7.

kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/politics-and-insights-condemns-george-osbornes-appointment-to-the-evening-standard-in-joint-independent-media-statement/

Mhairi Black is a star. She is a huge supporter of WASPI and talks a lot of sense.

Umm! DMs are normal footwear in our family

DD1 used to wear bright blue Doc Martens when a rebellious teenager.....but I liked them, so she soon reverted to normal footwear.

Quirky footwear is a sign of individuality, Lebedev and Farage are demonstrating that they don't need to fit in with the crowd.

He's as qualified for it as Osborne.
Lebedev has done a brilliant job of upsetting journalists everywhere. Trump should take some lessons from him.

Arsenal might need a new manager soon, too, unless Paul Nuttall gets the job.

Hope they are not Doc Marten's. I'll never be able to buy them for my granddaughters again!

Ginny Yes, I did. I've forgotten who made them, but one paper claimed they cost £295. Mmmm...classy (not). Lebedev's shoes are a bit strange too. Murdoch is the only one with normal shoes.

What confused me is that Blair seems to be setting up a company to research into himself.

Very interesting article by Zoe Williams, especially in the hundred's of comments following it. Amused by one which said, How's George going to manage it all with Strictly coming up?

Have said before on GN that Blair speaks sense to me. I'm just saying that I'm not going to chuck out the message because of who's delivering it. In my view it should be Corbyn, but hey ho, he's not going to.

Did you clock Farage's shoes in DD's photo?

Didn't Murdoch sit in on that interview between Gove and trump, too?

Zoe Williams was right about Blair, too. I was so confused at the end, I had no idea what he was supposed to be supporting.

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Lebedev (Junior) is a strange character. He has actually done some serious journalism. He also allows his editors to have considerable freedom. The Evening Standard's journalism is no longer what it once was, but it has done some serious campaigning on London's homelessness. Lebedev also owns the Independent.

However, he does invite some interesting people to his garden parties.

Zoe Williams' view of Osborne's appointment:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/19/george-osborne-brexit-chancellor-evening-standard-metropolitan-elite

I think she could be right. Osborne isnb't doing the job for the money, but for the influence.

167,000+ signatures now.

"The fundamental job of any free press is to hold power to account. This recruitment blows that idea out of the water. How will the London Evening Standard scrutinise a government when it’s run by a man who less than a year ago was its de facto number two – and who remains an MP for the ruling party? In the financial capital of the world, how much credibility will the Standard’s City pages command when their ultimate editor is in the pay of a giant fund manager? And how is journalism ever going to become an industry that represents its audience if one of its plum jobs can be lobbed by the son of a Russian oligarch into the lap of a public schoolboy who has never subbed, reported or edited? "

Peter Preston putting Osborne in his place.
www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/19/george-osborne-not-fake-news-just-fake-editor-evening-standard

It shows how little Osborne and Lebedev know about editing a newspaper.

There is a register of interests for journalists in the commons. I wonder if Osborne will have to list his conflict of interests as being an MP.